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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[May. 



son of John, was a good botanist, but his chief scriptions of all or most of the plants in cul- 

 love was ornithology. tivation in garden, greenhouse and stove. I 



mean scientific descriptions. I have Gray, Wood, 



A Book FOR Exotic Plants — J. W., Hous- and Chapman's Botanies, but am at a loss on 



ton, Texas, writes : " Would you please, in the cultivated plants." Lindley & Moore's "Treas- 



next issue of the Gardener's Monthly, ad- ury of Botany " comes the nearest we know to 



vise me as to what book I could get that has de- what you require. 



Horticultural Societies. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



I^ORTHERN Texas Horticultural So- 

 ciety. — The adjourned meeting of the fruit 

 growers took place at Sherman recently. The 

 meeting was held in the court house, and the 

 chairman pro tem., Jesse W. Bell, called the 

 meeting to order at 2 P. M. The attendance was 

 not large, but there was a fair representation of 

 the fruit interests of the county, and Mr. E. H. 

 Adams, of Bonham, was present to speak for 

 Fannin county. 



After the reading of the minutes of the former 

 meeting by the secretary, Mr. T. V. Munson, 

 and a communication from C. C. Bell, of Den- 

 ton, Elder C. S. Burns offered a resolution that 

 those who were willing to become members of 

 a Pomological Society, such as it was proposed 

 to organize, give in their names to the secretary. 

 Sixteen men put down their names for member- 

 ship. On motion of Elder Burns, the meeting 

 then proceeded to elect permanent officers, re- 

 sulting as follows : President, H. C. Cliittenden; 

 vice-president, Jesse W. Bell ; secretary, T. Y. 

 Munson ; treasurer, W. Robinson. 



On motion of Mr. G. Alkire, the fee of mem- 

 bership was fixed at fifty cents. 



On motion of Mr. Adams of Bonham, it was 

 resolved that the name of the society be The 

 North Texas Pomological Society. 



A motion by Mr. Munson that the Friday pre- 

 ceding the last Saturday in March, be the time 

 for holding the next meeting, and Denison the 

 place, was unanimously adopted. 



Hoticulture in Cincinnati.— At the great 

 exposition to be held in Cincinnati this Autumn, 



Horticulture has not been forgotten. The pre- 

 miums are extremely liberal, many being one 

 hundred dollars, and some three hundred dollars. 

 We note however, that the miserable system of 

 comparative competition instead of intrinsic 

 merits is still the rule for judges, under which 

 system nine-tenths of the premium money is 

 usually as good as thrown away. It seems to us 

 in a horse race the one which made " the best 

 time on record," would be more meritorious 

 than the one which " came in before Smith's 

 old gray mare." As the managers of fairs seem 

 to know more about horse trots than any thing 

 else, we have thought this "horsey" illus- 

 tration might perhaps carry our idea to their 

 understandings better than anything else. 



American Pomological Society. — The 

 President Marshall P. Wilder, met with a serious 

 accident, fracturing his leg by a fall down the 

 State House Steps some weeks ago, while en- 

 deavoring to influence some legislation favor- 

 able to agriculture. We hear later that Mr. 

 Wilder is quite comfortable, though our venera- 

 ble friend is in his eighty-first year. It is at last 

 certainly decided that the meeting of this Asso- 

 ciation will be held at Rochester, IST. Y., by 

 invitation of the Western I^ew York Horticul- 

 tural Society, on the 17th of September next. 



Premiums for Fruit. — Among the peculiari- 

 ties of the schedule of the New York Horticul- 

 tural Society, is the offers for numerous varieties 

 of fruit. Now the offer is for the best ten Bald- 

 win apples, and so on for an immense number 

 of kinds. It is not unusual for premiums to be 

 offered for single kinds ; but it is for such large 

 numbers. This exhibition is to be held " about 

 the middle" of September. 



